HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the background , the question always looms, “Are these extreme weather events caused by climate change ? ”. Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes.

Climate Change

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Gleick disagrees and defends the Malthusian notion that future food surpluses are highly uncertain due to climate change, and argues that I ignore such risks.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2022

While salmon runs fluctuate from year to year and this year’s returns have been higher than those of the past few years, human-caused climate change continues to warm the ocean and rivers, and the failure to improve salmon survival rates has left the region’s tribes facing a future without either wild or hatchery fish.

Ocean

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Sabin Center submitted an amicus brief supporting this claim and explaining how climate change attribution and detection research can be used to assess the effect of project-level emissions on sea ice declines within the habitat ranges of these species. Decision at 101-102.) See Nat’l Wildlife Fed’n v. 2d 1196, 1212 (D.

Fossil Fuels

Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

5 billion tons of dust throughout the atmosphere [4]. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium known to cause fatal infections in burn patients and Coccidioides immitis, a fungal infection which causes Valley fever [1, 4], have both been identified in the atmosphere after local and international dust storms [2]. References. Nations, U.

Atmosphere

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

Although not a silver bullet, it is likely to have positive consequences of decreasing GHGs, advancing work to prepare for the worsening physical impacts of climate change, and encouraging climate friendly innovations. [10] Mann, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back our Planet (2021). [37] 8] Zachary M.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

In making their case, the 31 environmental groups cite data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, projecting that financial cost of extreme heat in the United States will explode fivefold to half a trillion dollars a year by 2050. There is something else that would make their case even stronger: Data on people.

Fossil Fuels

Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Time and space do not allow a recitation of the bills that failed, but many did not pass in a session that was widely heralded as successful, including a much discussed Senate bill that would have made broad changes to Maryland’s approach to reducing statewide GHG emissions and addressing climate change that was not well received in the House.

Law

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In the last few months he has given two interviews in which he goes into to detail about what he describes as a ‘missing element’ in climate science and what he imagines the consequences are for climate change. Clauser however takes that number, removes 80 and 20 W/m 2 for atmospheric absorption by ozone (!!)

Radiation